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National Medal of Arts (1985) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) Edward MacDowell Medal (1972) Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 ...
Georgia O'Keeffe created a series of paintings of skyscrapers in New York City between 1925 and 1929. They were made after O'Keeffe moved with her new husband into an apartment on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, which gave her expansive views of all but the west side of the city. She expressed her appreciation of the city's early ...
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born on a farm near Sun Prairie in Wisconsin's Dane County on Nov. 15, 1887. She was the second oldest child and oldest daughter of Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida ...
Sky Above Clouds (1960–1977) is a series of eleven cloudscape paintings by the American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, produced during her late period. The series of paintings is inspired by O'Keeffe's views from her airplane window during her frequent air travel in the 1950s and early 1960s when she flew around the world.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Accession. 1981.23. Website. Wadsworth Atheneum. The Lawrence Tree is a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1929 of a large ponderosa pine tree on the D. H. Lawrence Ranch in Taos County, New Mexico. [1][2] The tree still survives (as of 2024) and may be visited at the Lawrence Ranch.
1936. Type. Oil on linen. Dimensions. 180 cm × 212 cm (71 in × 83.5 in) Location. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. Jimson Weed is an oil on linen painting by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe from 1936, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. It depicts four large blossoms of jimson weed.
A small painting of a close-up of a red canna lily was made by O'Keeffe in 1919. The 8 in × 6 in (20.3 cm × 15.2 cm) oil painting depicts the flower against a dark cloudy background. Owned by a private collector, it is on extended loan to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [7] It was stolen from the Santa Fe, New Mexico museum by a security guard ...